Psalms 17:6,7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Bible Comments

‘I have called on you, for you will answer me, O God,

Incline your ear to me, and hear my speech.

Show your marvellous covenant love,

O you who save by your right hand,

Those who take refuge in you,

From those who rise up.'

He calls on YHWH as the Deliverer, the One Who reveals His marvellous covenant love, Who saves by His powerful right hand, confident that He will answer him. He cries to Him to do so. The ‘I' is emphatic. He has taken refuge in YHWH. Let YHWH deliver him from those who rise up against him, as for one who is true to the covenant.

Psalms 17:6-7

6 I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.

7 Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against them.